4.0 Major Accomplishments

4.1 Instructional Activity

A key measure for examining PDP’s accomplishments is to consider its overall instructional activity in meeting the education and training needs of the public service workforce. PDP has an extended history of offering a comprehensive range of education and training programs for the public workforce that continue to generate steady enrollments on an annual basis. For the past five years, PDP has, on average, offered over 3,132 instructional activities per year enrolling approximately 520,011 workers. Figures 3 and 4 provide a summary of instructional activity and enrollments for the period 2019–2024.

During the past year (2023–2024), PDP offered 3,306 courses, institutes, and workshops enrolling 551,089 workers. This generated 1,259,361 contact hours of instruction across all of its programs, which is approximately a 12% increase compared to the previous year’s 1,121,899 contact hours.

The program areas that generated the largest enrollments were Child Care Provider Training (440,841 for 2023–2024) and Temporary Assistance Examiner (82,485 during 2023–2024).

PDP offered a full complement of in-person offerings throughout the 2023–2024 fiscal year. Of note, on-line deliveries, both instructor-led and on demand, continued to grow as well during this period.